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Make a political point, that the attack bolstered his travel ban. we need to be smart, vigilant and tough, he tweeted. we need the courts to give us back our rights. we need the travel ban as an extra level of security. questions are being raised about a possible intelligence failure after the british government raised the threat level. >> senator, welcome back. what can you add to what we just heard from catherine. >> i think what we heard is a broadband of potential attacks. we hear from our o...

Identifying anyone thats behaving strangely or something along these lines. thats one piece of this. fundamentally, theres very little an open society can do to create a foolproof plan. i think intelligence, national security and police authorities are going to look at this and ask, how did they miss this? particularly, were speculating. three or more players connected, if john is right, isis and al qaeda had some role in this, then theyre going to stay, how did we miss this? where was the intel...

Further, david the millers point, this decision to lower the threat level recently has endless questioning whether there was in fact, an intelligence failure in this case. shannon: catherine, what about us here in the us. how does it impact our operations and outlook on terror of the? >> at this time they had no information to indicate a specific credible threat to the united states. secretary kelly told fox news last night that he worries that we are quote right around the corner from having a ...

Have some groups that are looking at a big play like taking down an airliner, you have others who lead very little support, very little telling and can do incredible damage which is actually, in many ways, almost more of a terrorism because you go anywhere, do anything, you wonder what could happen at any moment. >> questions are being raised about a possible intelligence failure after the british government recently lowered the threat level in the country. leland: a couple things, kevin. what w...

Disservice to the american and detracks the american people from the good works hes doing on this overseas trip. >> what i wonder about going forward, on high security or sensitive issues, god forbid we should be going to war or expanding our battle against isis and places like syriian the tomahawk missile attack. world will get out on that and it will be an intelligence failure that he predoom whatever operation were taking to go after a president even if it has bad ramifications on our country...

>> shepard: fred flight, here with us now. senior vice president at the center for security policy. you were saying earlier its important not to get ahead of ourselves and find out what we are working with before we move forward. it certainly, we consider how things are done and how much security precautions are taken. the difference for instance -- in my recent travels to paris and rome versus england, the differences are significant. long guns increase. very heavy security. in london, its fran...

Mr. buchanan, what do you think donald trumps attitude should be toward the special prosecutor? >> an independent console or special prosecutor, no. the fbi is investigating an intelligence failure, intelligence breach the united states. if a crime is discovered by the fbi and it affects people high in the trump administration or in the campaign, i think then you talk about whos going to prosecute it. unless and until you get a crime, this is the point ive been trying to make, theyve had ten mon...

War is all about, what diplomacy is all about. you see images like this, they were shocking. it makes sense that we would we react to it. i think its truly stunning, the degree to which the obama administration failed to understand the gravity of the situation, failed to realize the degree to which they were being lied to. whether it was susan rice or john kerry or the president himself. even after that report you shown from the state department. its truly stunning. after 9/11, we had extensive ...

Of course, that is kind of what war is all about, what diplomacy is all about. you see images like this, they were shocking. it makes sense that we would we react to it. i think its truly stunning, the degree to which the obama administration failed to understand the gravity of the situation, failed to realize the degree to which they were being lied to. whether it was susan rice or john kerry or the president himself. even after that report you shown from the state department. its truly stunnin...

House intelligence committee is an oxymoron after the vote on health care. [laughter] a little jest. but what exactly are you guys investigating? i need to know from the chairman. what exactly are you investigating? >> we have long had an investigation going on on russia. a year ago, i said the biggest intelligence failure since 9/11 was the failure to understand putins plan and intentions. if you look at what happened after that, we are now looking at the analytical integrity, did the intellige...